Geography of Persia
What is a large, flat, elevated piece of land called?
What is a plateau?
Who was the Persian king famous for building a large empire through conquest?
Who was Cyrus the Great?
What kingdom in Anatolia became wealthy through trade?
What was Lydia?
What is another name for the Persian Empire, named after the founder of Cyrus's family?
What is the Achaemenid Empire?
What peninsula, also known as Asia Minor, corresponds to modern-day Turkey?
What is Anatolia?
What mountain range stretches from southeastern Anatolia toward the Persian Gulf?
What are the Zagros Mountains?
Who was the mother of Cyrus the Great?
Who was Mandane?
What was the name of the last king of Lydia before Cyrus conquered it?
Who was Croesus?
What were the regional governors of the Persian Empire called?
What were satraps?
What ancient capital of the Elamite kingdom was later used as a regional capital by Persian kings?
What was Susa?
What massive plateau stretches from the Hindu Kush Mountains to the Armenian Highlands?
What is the Iranian Plateau?
Who was the last king of the Medes and the grandfather of Cyrus the Great?
Who was Astyages?
What system uses standardized metal coins instead of bartering?
What is coinage?
Which Persian king conquered Egypt in 525 BC?
Who was Cambyses II?
What Greek city on the west coast of Asia Minor was associated with the philosopher Thales?
What was Miletus?
What region stretches from the Caspian Sea eastward toward the western mountains of China?
What is Central Asia?
What Median general helped overthrow Astyages?
Who was Harpagos?
What alloy of gold and silver was used in some of the world's earliest coins?
What is electrum?
Which Persian king ruled from 522 to 486 BC and expanded the empire from the Indus River Valley to the Black Sea?
Who was Darius I?
What tribe from the Central Asian steppes was famous for horsemanship and archery, and what tribe's queen defeated Cyrus?
Who were the Scythians and the Massagetae?
What region means “beyond the River Oxus,” the traditional boundary between Persia and the steppes?
What is Transoxiana?
What was the capital city of the Medes, located in their traditional homeland in the Zagros Mountains?
What was Ecbatana?
What was the capital of Lydia that later became an administrative capital of the western Persian Empire?
What was Sardis?
What carved inscription recorded the events surrounding Bardiya's death and Darius I's rise to power?
What was the Behistun Inscription?
Identify the Persian official connected to the attempted seizure of the throne, Cyrus's son whose mysterious death triggered a power struggle, and the queen who defeated Cyrus in battle.
Who were Patizithes, Bardiya, and Tomyris?